Quotes About Blindness

What starts love is your ability to stupefy and blind yourself to the point of being able to fall in love. What stops it is waking up.

Is puppy love the reason so many Americans are blind to the incompetence and waste of Republicans - who at a minimum are supposed to be good money managers - running Iraq reconstruction?

Osiris stopped paying attention to how his kingdom was being run. That was willful blindness, and there is no blaming that on mere age.

If existence is good, then the clearest and cleanest and most correct relationship with it is also good. If existence is not good, by contrast, you're lost. Nothing will save you—certainly not the petty rebellions, murky thinking and obscurantist blindness that constitute deceit. Is existence good? You have to take a terrible risk to find out. Live in truth, or live in deceit, face the consequences, and draw your conclusions.

The things you can see, with even a single open eye. It's no wonder that people want to stay blind.

Only careful aim and wakeful striving and commitment can eliminate the oft-incremental calamity of willful blindness, stem the entropic tide, and keep catastrophe—familial and social alike—at bay.

Things fall apart: this is one of the great discoveries of humanity. And we speed the natural deterioration of great things through blindness, inaction and deceit. Without attention, culture degenerates and dies, and evil prevails.

the world, as perceived, is maya—appearance or illusion. This means, in part, that people are blinded by their desires (as well as merely incapable of seeing things as they truly are). This is true, in a sense that transcends the metaphorical. Your eyes are tools. They are there to help you get what you want. The price you pay for that utility, that specific, focused direction, is blindness to everything else.

You are blind, because of what you desire. Perhaps what you really need is right in front of your eyes, but you cannot see it because of what you are currently aiming for.

force them to discover with as much difficulty as possible exactly what they have done to disappoint you; and, finally, let them grope around blindly in the fog that you have generated around yourself until they stumble into and injure themselves on the sharp hidden edges of your unrevealed preferences and dreams.

we speed the natural deterioration of great things through blindness, inaction and deceit. Without attention, culture degenerates and dies, and evil prevails.

Sve se može srušiti: to je jedno od velikih ljudskih otrki?a. A mi ubrzavamo prirodno propadanje velikih stvari svojom sljepo?om, nedjelovanjem i zavaravanjem. Bez budne pozornosti kultura se raspada i umire, a zlo pobje?uje.

Imagine that you're unhappy. You're not getting what you need. Perversely, this may be because of what you want. You are blind, because of what you desire. Perhaps what you really need is right in front of your eyes, but you cannot see it because of what you are currently aiming for.

Unfortunately, in the longer term, this willful blindness leaves life murky and foggy; leaves it void, unseen, without form, confused—and leaves you bewildered and astonished.

Justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind.

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.

Demek ki hayat?n?n k?rk beÅŸ y?l?n? körlük içinde yaÅŸam??t?, kendisine veya dünyaya ait hiçbir ÅŸey bilmeden.

I hate being blind. I wish I had never been born!

Well, you can't see, mouse-brain! Jaypaw felt his neck fur bristling at the stupid question. "Everything's dark. But I can hear and scent okay, so that's how I find my way around.

Only when I get treated like I'm different," Jaypaw replied. "I don't feel any different, so it's really annoying when anyone makes a fuss about my blindness. It's like they feel sorry for me when there's nothing to feel sorry about.

Estaba la teoría de Stendhal, de que el amor es un error. No es que a veces pueda errar, sino que por naturaleza es un error. El que ama se imagina perfecciones que no existen. Cuando esas fantasías desaparecen de la mente, cesa el amor. El amor no es ciego sino peor que ciego, es visionario, ve lo que no hay. A

Yet who would have believed that the gods of fat and butter who filled the cows' udders would gain a following in the Marina--of worshippers, at that, who came from houses in which offerings and sacrifices had long been mocked? The same spirits who deemed themselves strong enough to cut the ties that bound them to their ancestral faith became subjugated to the barbarian idols' spell. The sight of their blind obedience was more repugnant than drunkenness at midday.

What are you afraid of then?" "Not being able to see, I think, [...] not seeing because you're obsessed by something that blots out the world. Some sort of mania or belief. Or passion. That awful kind of love that makes leaves and birds and cherry blossom invisible because it's not the face on some man.

We believe, it seems, where we ought to reason. We reason where we ought to believe. We believe too blindly and not blindly enough. We reason too closely and not closely enough.